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Why Study History?
To answer that question, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt tells a pedagogical story in two parts.
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The Language of MOOCs
Can providers of massive open online courses achieve their goal of educating the most possible people when their offerings are overwhelmingly in English? No, Roberto Rey Agudo argues.
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A Policy That Harms the Neediest Students
Nivine Megahed describes how three-quarters of her institution's students must verify their financial aid applications -- and the toll it has taken on them.
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Free College Denied
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid has a hidden trap that shuts students out, Katie Berger and Carrie Warick argue.
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What College Students Need Most
To many people, vocational education has often meant learning a trade, but a more profound and important meaning of the term has been coming back into use, writes David S. Cunningham.
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Fresh Eyes on the Campus Tour
Patrick O’Connor takes his first multicollege trip for counselors and emerges impressed.
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Ethical College Admissions: What We Know
Jim Jump reviews the data on test-optional policies and considers what he would still like to know.
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‘Diploma Mill’
Scott McLemee reviews Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania by David Alan Johnson.